Belt-slide



Patented Feb. I4, |899.

' 0. A. LEHMAN.

BELT SLIDE. (Application filed Aug. 11, 1898.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OTTO A. LEHMAN, OF HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

BELT-SLIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming* part of Letters Patent NO. 619,492, datedFebruary 14, 1899.

Application filed August 11, 1898. Y Serial No. 688,861. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, OTTO A. LEHMAN, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Hoboken,in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Belt-Slides, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in belt-slides in which provisionis made for detachably securing the slide to the skirt to support theskirt at its back.

The object is to provide a simple and effective device for uniting theends of the ilexible strip which forms the body of the slide and at thesame time prevent the slide from collapsing under the weight of theskirt, securing the pin firmly in its socket and housing the socket.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a View of the belt-slide as itappears in use, the view being taken from that side ofthe belt which isplaced next to the body of the wearer. Fig. 2 is a transverseV sectionthrough the same. Fig. 3 is a front view of the fastening-plate with pinin position, and Fig. i is a rear view of the same.

The strip of flexible material--leather for example-which is to form thebody of the slide is denoted by A. It may be of any suitable width andthickness. The sheet-metal plate which performs the various functions ofsecuring the ends of the strip A, holding the slide extended, andretaining the pin is denoted as a whole by B. Its length is intended tobe substantially the width of the belt C, on which the slide is to bemounted, and its width is preferably about the width of the strip A.

Across the middle portion of the plate a half-socket b is formed byforcing the body of the plate laterally, and the socket is completed forholding the shield-pin D therein by partially severing tongues b fromthe body of the plate B adjacent to the half-socket b and bending themover one part of the pin D, as clearly shown in the drawings.

Broad tongues b2, preferably having their free ends rounded, arepartially severed from the body of the plate B upon opposite sides ofthe pin-retaining socket for the purpose of securing the ends of thestrip A to the plate, as follows: The strip Ais of such length that itsends when folded over toward each other on the side of the belt towardthe body of the wearer and drawn together to loosely embrace the belt Owill rest in proximity to the opposite sides of the half-socket h.. At adistance back fromthe ends corresponding to the bases of the tongues b2the strip Ais provided with transverse slts a, through which the tonguesb2 are extended and there turned down flatly on the face of the strip A,thereby securing the ends of the strip firmly and at the same timehousing the half-socket b between the ends of the strip and even with orbelow the exposed faces of the strip. As the plate B extends along backof the fastened ends of the strip A a distance corresponding to thewidth of the belt, it serves to hold the slide extended and prevents itand the belt from collapsing under the strain of the weight attached tothe pin.

By the above-described structure and arrangement of part-s I make asingle plate of thin sheet metal serve the several functions enumerated,and the slide as a Whole is light,

strong, and neat in appearance, presenting no objectionable thickness orprojections to interfere with the comfort of the wearer.

What I claim as my invention is The belt-slide comprising the body-stripof' OTTO A. LEHMAN.

Witnesses:

I-IENRY'M. N UTZHORN, BRUNO BERGMANN.

